This book is the result of collaboration between the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All Russian Scienti?c Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) located in Sarov, Russia and the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory (UC-LANL). The genesis of this project was the compilation of a set of lecture notes used by a number of leading VNIIEF researchers in courses taught to students of the Sarov Physical and Technical Institute(SarFTI)specializingin Theoretical andExperimentalMechanics. A revised and signi?cantly supplemented version of those lecture notes was...